Saturday, October 31, 2009

In a continuing effort to make the List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies canonical and comprehensive, I am adding additional journals in groups of twenty. All of these have been accessible via Abzu for varying lengths of time. This offers me the opportunity to verify all the links and repair the broken ones.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

In an effort to make the List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies canonical and comprehensive, I will add additional journals in groups of twenty All of these have been accessible via Abzu for varying lengths of time. This offers me the opportunity to check all the links and repair the broken ones.

The special collection for art history of the UB Heidelberg, also contains a collection of books from the 17th until the early 19th century about early Christian and Byzantine art. These holdings are gradually being digitised and made available online, free of charge.

Archaeologica Adriatica is a journal of exclusively archaeological character involved in explicating various archaeological themes and questions related to the Adriatic Sea region and the area bordering it. This definitely includes those areas that in earlier (archaeological, historical) periods composed cultural units. Journal will publish texts extending from the prehistoric period and the period of antiquity to the medieval period. Texts dealing with aspects of later periods will also be considered if they have clear connections to archaeology. Articles indirectly related to archaeology (ethnology and history, for instance) will also be published, as well as works dealing with methodology, museum studies. and the protection of cultural monuments. All texts will be published in Croatian. At present only extensive summaries will be published in foreign languages, but in future we hope to begin with parallel translations of the complete articles.

The journal Histria archaeologica has been published periodically since 1970. It emerged from the need to publish archeological and museological results in one specialized journal. The articles are thematically related to archeology and art of the Istrian and Kvarner region.

Monday, October 26, 2009

n.b.: The Studia Orontica server is unresponsive in April 2013 - fortunately there is a version of the site in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine here. In the hope that the server will return, I retain the original links below.

Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum

The Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL) is a series of critical editions of the Latin Church Fathers published by a committee of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

The CSEL is intended to include the ecclesiastical authors who wrote in Latin from the late 2nd century AD until the death of Bede in 735. The texts are edited on the basis of all extant manuscripts and according to the principles of modern textual criticism and thus aim to provide a critical replacement for the corresponding volumes of the Patrologia Latina.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Colleagues point out that the following well established and well respected open access journals were not on the list. The reason was simply that they had not been mentioned in AWOL yet. Now they have been, and now they are in the list.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Oct. 8, 2009)—The University of Michigan Press is joining with HathiTrust Digital Library to open electronic content for free online access. U-M Press plans to have 1,000 or more titles available for full viewing by the end of this year.

Launched in 2008, HathiTrust is a digital preservation repository and research management tool for the world's great research libraries, focused on providing scholars in the digital age with the largest collection of electronic research material this side of Google Book Search and large-scale, full-text searching and archiving tools to manage it...

At this time the following titles in ancient studes are available in this collection

Title: The Aphrodite of Knidos and her successors : a historical review of the female nude in Greek art / Christine Mitchell Havelock.

The CDL is a collaborative network of projects centered around the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. We provide a global registry for cuneiform documents (the CDLI catalog), tools for corpus-development (the ATF specification and related software and web-services), educational pages (the CDLI wiki) and a free hosting service to support the development of special-interest projects (this portal!).

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.